22 Report of the Meetings for 1892. 



of the North-Eastern Eailway Company. It is about ten miles 

 from Alnwick by road. The situation of the building, fine 

 though it is, is rather low, lying at the foot of the Castle Hill — 

 an eminence on the south-east, wood-covered from base to crest ; 

 on it ancient British remains have been found. There is a 

 tradition which is not peculiar to this place (for instance, at Sir 

 Francis Drake's house of Buckland Mouachorum is a similar 

 tradition) that, as the old rhyme says — 



Callalj Castle stands on the height, 

 Up i' the day and doon i' the night ; 

 If ye build it on the shepherd's haw, 

 There it'll stand and never fa'. 



and on the shepherd's haugh it is built, and stands as firmly 

 as ever. 



"Like one or two other houses in Northumberland, the 

 nucleus of this castle — the former residence of the ancient 

 North country family of the Claverings, whose ancestor, Roger 

 Fitz-Roger, Baron of Wark worth, purchased it in 1272 from 

 Gilbert de Callaly'''' — is one of those Border Peles of which there 

 are so many in Northumberland. As at Chipchase Castle and 

 Belsay Castle, in the same couuty, a seventeenth-century house 

 has been added to the original tower. In the case of Callaly, 

 this addition, which faces the south, was made in 1676 to the 

 east side of the tower, this being cased at the same time with 

 fresh masonry to harmonise with the new structure, and windows 

 inserted to correspond, so that no trace of the ancient pele is to 

 be seen, at any rate on the exterior. In this seventeenth-century 

 portion there are a centre doorway and a series of windows, with 

 angular pedimented tops. Above the doorway are the arms of 

 the Claverings, and an ornate sundial of stone, bearing the date 

 of erection, and the motto — vt hoea sic vita. In 1707 another 

 wing was added at the east end of the 1676 addition to corres- 

 pond with the pele portion at the west end ; and subsequently 

 in 1726 other alterations were made. The building has thus 

 three fronts, facing west, south, and east respectively. At the 

 north end of the east front was situated the chapel, used for the 

 services of the Roman Church, until the property was acquired 



* This is not quite correct. — Gilbert de Calveley sold Callaly and 

 Yetlington to a Jew, who again disposed of them to Fitz-Roger, Lord of 

 Warkworth.— ifisL Ber. Nat. Club, xui., p. 44.— J.H. 



